My appreciation of Brian Dillon’s The Hypochondriacs is up at NPR. If you have health problems, or worry that you have health problems, or both, you should read this book. People who never get sick might enjoy it, too — if only for the opportunity to feel superior while jogging around the park in the snow — but I wouldn’t . . .
“If I’m anything I’m a post- humanist.” John Banville talks with Anne K. Yoder. (See also.)
HLO interviews Miljenko Jergovic, author of the excellent Sarajevo Marlboro, who apparently also works as a journalist. (Via.)
Vladimir Nabokov famously instructed his wife Vera to destroy his final, unfinished novel, The Original of Laura, if he didn’t live to complete it. At his death, the draft consisted of a stack of notecards which he’d shuffled through, added to, and rewritten right up until the end. Vera, having once saved an early version of Lolita from the incinerator, . . .